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MU Study Suggests That A Health IT Divide May Be Emerging Among Physicians

Healthcare IT Today

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

A recent study in a JAMA publication, “Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record,” helps drive discussion of bloat forward by focusing on one manifestation: the duplication of text from one patient note to another. And such a study might be hard to carry out. Follow the money.

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like with the electronic health record: The very first thing for our customers that has been studied is that the most important thing is good training, good learning. Studying the data from our customers' patients allows us to have access to somewhere between 100 million and 200 million patients right now.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. New study outlines challenges, dangers for machine learning. 2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. needs a plan.

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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

Having sat in on some industry meetings between clinical research organizations and study sponsors, I am excited at the patient stakeholder group having equal representation and influence with the operationalization of drug development. What good is a walk test if a patient is disabled and unable to walk?

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Evidence for the positive impact of this data on quality, satisfaction, and in some cases cost is thin but growing.

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. A 2019 study of the new approaches to granting EHR access in 12 US healthcare systems revealed that patients are more likely to take their health under control when they have access to the EHR via their smartphones.

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